Thursday, February 14, 2008

FOR AND AGAINST

We started with a speaking and listening activities about airports, what people do when there are delays and oral and written exercises about present tenses ( a sort of warm up of unit 8).Along with the listening , the first half of the handout for homework was reviewed. Please, do the second half for next Monday .Apart from letters of complaint, this term you´re also going to learn to write compositions about advantages and disadvantages. Following the instructions in your books pages 60 and 61 ,we had a look at the most conventional topics eg,e-mail versus "snail mail", then saw step by step the procedures to gather ideas ,develop and logically organize them into paragraphs with and introduction, points in favour, ideas against and a conclusion.As linking words are very closely connected with this activity , we did some practice with a handout summarizing ideas of addition, contrast, giving example,sequencing ideas, results,reasons, contrasts... And to finish,we studied a basic model of a composition of this type with linkers, organization of ideas and general layout. I´m interested in your working this item both in written form and in oral debates.To do so, you were given a list of controversial topics : one for the composition to be handed next Thursday and on Monday you´ll pick up another one for a speech and further debates in class:everybody has to do it.No escape.

About this blog

My name's Ana Mª de Torres . I currently work at Langreo EOI as an English teacher and this blog has been specially designed for my students who, for whatever reason, can't come to class regularly.

Here they'll find the activities carried out in the classroom and a variety of articles and interesting links to broadnen their knowledge of the language and culture of the many countries English is spoken in.